The Export of Ecological Civilization: Reflections from Law and Economics and Law and Development

Faure, Michael

doi:10.3390/su122410409

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“…From a mainstream economics perspective, contributions on the nature–economy nexus, in other words, how economic activities based on the exploitation of natural resources could undermine future growth (Naveed et al, 2022), have not been linked to the protection of IP rights and lands. The policies have mainly sought to tackle the link between environmental degradation and economic growth via the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) (Faure, 2020; Naveed et al, 2022). Environmental economics have supported environmental regulations that consider the environment as a scarce resource, the cost of environmental degradation, and the economics of regulation.…”

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Investment projects and the protection of indigenous peoples and territories in Colombia

Lizarazo‐Rodríguez,

De Lombaerde,

Lizarazo Carrera

et al. 2024

Latin American Policy

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This article addresses the protection of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats in Colombia when investment projects are planned or implemented. Special attention is paid to the mechanisms of prior informed consultation; and free, prior, and informed consent. The Colombian case is relevant because it is at the vanguard of protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and their territories, and it is home to tough policy choices, balancing indigenous rights, the environment (as a megadiverse country), and the economy (highly dependent on mining exports). From a law and sustainable development perspective, this article analyzes a novel combination of various statistical data sets and case law and includes tests of the outcomes of prior informed consultation processes and their interaction with environmental licensing based on regression analyses. The conclusions point to the scale of the use of the protection mechanisms, the patterns in the behavior of indigenous peoples and in the outcomes of the mechanisms, the need to reinterpret transaction costs, and the crucial role of the constitutional court.

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Investment projects and the protection of indigenous peoples and territories in Colombia

Lizarazo‐Rodríguez,

De Lombaerde,

Lizarazo Carrera

et al. 2024

Latin American Policy

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“…The impact of Ecological Civilization thinking is stretching to far beyond China's borders, since it is increasingly exported (Faure, 2020) and promoted to other countries that make part of the Belt and Road Initiative (Ruta, 2018), This underlines the need to share knowledge about this philosophy and to explore new combinations.…”

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Tensions and opportunities at Shanghai’s waterfronts

den Hartog

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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How can the Global North oriented and welfare state rooted Sustainability Transitions theories be enriched with the Chinese and communist state rooted Ecological Civilization thinking that has been included in the Chinese constitution since 2007, to make it able to evaluate the making of the direct-controlled municipality Shanghai into an institutional frontrunner of sustainable transitions in urban planning and design with its prime waterfront as exemplary ‘urban lab’? Around this central question, this dissertation examines how Shanghai's coastal and waterfront developments have changed over the past two decades under the influence of shifts in Chinese state capitalism towards what is called an Ecological Civilization. Two cases along the waterfronts of Shanghai – one on former docklands, and one on Chongming Island ¬– have been examined to test how both lines of thinking can enrich each other, and if a sustainable transition can be done more efficiently and convincingly in a centrally controlled society than in a non-autocratic (liberal) society. What lessons does the Chinese approach in Shanghai offer for elsewhere, and how can different approaches and practices reinforce each other in the field of spatial planning and strategies for a sustainable transition? This dissertation emphasizes that ecological civilization thinking can offer hopeful starting points for sustainable transitions but can only work well if 'checks and balances’ are included. It gives suggestions to improve the accessibility, inclusivity, and vibrancy of Shanghai’s waterfronts, and mitigate ecological degradation in the context of an urban delta.

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“…The concept of ecological civilization heavily influences environmental policymaking in China, whose implementation in local laws and policies may impact global environment. One of the well-known topics that is connected to ecological civilization may be the lowcarbon economy in China (e.g., [17,56,[59][60][61]). In our analyses, the low-carbon economy had a strong appearance in both the co-appearance networks (Figures 5 and 6) and the keyword burst analyses (Tables 4 and 5) during the earlier period.…”

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Exploring the Potential Opportunities of China’s Environmental Agenda, Ecological Civilization, on Global Sustainable Development

Tang

Tan‐Mullins

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Ecological civilization is an important paradigm proposed by China in the context of growing local environmental challenges. The application of ecological civilization may have a spillover effect on the globe. To understand how the paradigm is interpreted by the international academic community and its Chinese counterpart, a bibliometric map of related articles published between 2000 and 2019 was mapped according to the identities of the collected Chinese and international bibliographies (9196 in CNKI and 664 in WoS). The keyword frequency statistics confirm that the concept of ecological civilization has been frequently connected to visions of sustainable development within and outside of China. The chronology of publication numbers and keyword bursts indicated that the studies related to ecological civilization have gained significant traction in China due to official support and the subjects of the research are sensitive to the change in leadership. The much lower publication number of international studies and China-centered co-authored studies indicate that the international community is less enthusiastic about ecological civilization. This may become a barrier to fostering consensus about international collaboration on mutually beneficial sustainable development. Based on the keyword burst analysis, this study is the first to reveal that green development is currently a shared interest in China and internationally in the literature on ecological civilization; international collaboration pursuing green development may be a path to realize global sustainable development goals. Further systemic review of the contents of individual research may need to be conducted to confirm and refine the findings of this bibliometric analysis.

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The Export of Ecological Civilization: Reflections from Law and Economics and Law and Development

Cited by 7 publications

References 86 publications

Investment projects and the protection of indigenous peoples and territories in Colombia

Investment projects and the protection of indigenous peoples and territories in Colombia

Tensions and opportunities at Shanghai’s waterfronts

Exploring the Potential Opportunities of China’s Environmental Agenda, Ecological Civilization, on Global Sustainable Development

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